Crazy human

Sincere 2022-03-19 09:01:03

For us living on the other side of the earth in a "harmonious and peaceful celestial dynasty", this history of Africa seems to exist only when sitting with family for dinner after get off work every day, through CCAV's "News Broadcast" in just a few seconds. Long shots, and what's on the press release with a simple narrative. Perhaps in the occasional gap between raising their heads and picking up vegetables, everyone would not painfully insert a sentence: "Oh, dad, look, those backward Africans are really barbaric." But for Rwanda, which is full of racial contradictions and constant wars, this was what was happening and happening, a real purgatory on earth.

The Hutu massacre against the Tutsi in the first half of the movie, and the Tutsi turn to kill the Hutu in the second half of the film, the cycle is endless. This is an unclear fact. People use the most primitive weapons, knives and clubs to fight their neighbors, just because they feel that if they don't kill each other at this time, they will be killed in the next second. The movie doesn’t have any fancy shots (it’s more like a well-made documentary, in fact, I think the movie is not enough to render the Holocaust, it didn’t capture the blood and despair), and some are just the simplest. Shaking truth.

After the movie is released, it is easy for people to compare it with Spielberg’s famous blockbuster of the same type. Who is the greater Paul or Schindler? I think that this world will never lack sin, but it will never lack the glory of humanity.

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Extended Reading
  • Breana 2021-10-20 19:01:40

    The reporter and Paul talked about the possible reaction of foreign audiences after seeing the tragedy suffered by the Tutsi, which reminded me of "About the Pain of Others." Susan Sontag mentioned in the book, let’s see With more photos that reflect the suffering, you will at a certain level think that you have really helped those who are trapped. Of course this is a digression, but it is relevant to us.

  • Herminio 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    Telling a brutal genocide in a plain way, through the shelter of the hotel manager Paul to our compatriots, we can feel the good side of human nature, but whenever the camera turns to the scene where the corpses are everywhere, there will be a kind of same roots. Why is it too anxious?

Hotel Rwanda quotes

  • Paul Rusesabagina: I am glad that you have shot this footage and that the world will see it. It is the only way we have a chance that people might intervene.

    Jack: Yeah and if no one intervenes, is it still a good thing to show?

    Paul Rusesabagina: How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities?

    Jack: I think if people see this footage they'll say, "oh my God that's horrible," and then go on eating their dinners.

    [pause]

    Jack: What the hell do I know?

  • Colonel Oliver: [explaining why the world will not intervene] You're black. You're not even a nigger. You're an African.